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ContractPodAi raises $115M in Growth Funding Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to Shape the Digital Transformation of the Legal Industry
LONDON, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

  -- ContractPodAi will focus on accelerating its ContractPodAI Cloud growth
     plans: 'One Legal Platform' to support in-house corporate legal teams with
     a multi-application solution for their technology needs 

ContractPodAi ( 
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), the award-winning provider of the AI-powered contract lifecycle management 
(CLM) led 'One Legal Platform', today announced a USD $115 million Series C 
investment headed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. This latest round saw 
ContractPodAi's valuation increase 5x from its previous Series B round in 2019. 
As part of the transaction, Ayush Jain of SoftBank Investment Advisers will 
join the ContractPodAi Board. Proceeds from the round will go towards further 
accelerating ContractPodAi's platform capabilities and expanding its market 
presence internationally, leveraging SoftBank's networks to capture new 
opportunities in the APAC region. This funding round also marks Vision Fund 2's 
first investment in legal technology, one of the fastest growing SaaS 
categories.

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Almost every business function relies on legal involvement or expertise. 
Despite its importance, legal has been one of the last functions to adopt 
digitization. Legal is the next frontier for digital transformation, and 
ContractPodAi is leading the charge.  

ContractPodAi's 'One Legal Platform'

Building on the strength of ContractPodAi's end-to-end CLM solution, 
ContractPodAi's no-code platform allows teams to manage any legal scenario, 
process, or document using the platform's pre-built and configurable 
applications such as claims, RFP review, and IP portfolio management.

In addition, the platform offers simple, guided forms and templates to create a 
legal application from scratch in minutes - a fast, easy, and intuitive way to 
scale highly tailored solutions for in-house teams' everyday legal needs. 
Across both pre-built applications and configurable applications, the platform 
leverages an embedded toolkit of AI functionality like document review, 
cognitive search, and advanced analytics for each use case. Pre-built 
applications contain tailored AI data models tuned to the objective of each 
module. 

ContractPodAi is dedicated to help in-house counsel address any legal task they 
need to deliver, from buy- and sell-side contracting, to compliance 
requirements, to corporate governance. ContractPodAi's versatile platform 
offering and no-risk digital transformation delivery model maximize a legal 
team's technology investment. Additionally, ContractPodAi offers an expert 
legal transformation team who can engineer applications to any company's 
workflows and playbook.

"Despite the inexorable digitization of the workplace, legal processes have 
largely resisted disruption," said Ayush Jain, investor for SoftBank Investment 
Advisers. "ContractPodAi's technology aims to empower in-house legal 
professionals to radically improve business performance such as driving faster 
revenue recognition, increase compliance adherence and optimise operational 
workflows. We believe the company's modularized, one platform approach extends 
way beyond existing Contract Lifecycle Management to capture a vast array of 
legal use cases across multiple jurisdictions."

"We are just scratching the surface of what we can do," said Sarvarth Misra, 
Co-Founder and CEO of ContractPodAi. "The market is asking for a legal 
platform, a technology infrastructure that supports in-house legal teams like 
CRM does for sales teams or fintech for finance. With the backing of Insight 
Partners, Eagle Proprietary Investments, and now SoftBank Vision Fund 2, we are 
ready to win the market by driving digital transformation for our customers 
with our One Legal Platform approach."

Existing investor, Eagle Proprietary Investments (Eagle), also doubled down on 
their previous investments from ContractPodAi's Series A and Series B rounds. 
Deval Dvivedi, Head of International for Eagle and ContractPodAi Board member 
said, "ContractPodAi has seen a wonderful journey from the time of its Series A 
funding and we are excited to continue supporting its growth story." 

ContractPodAi is raising this funding round on the back of record-setting sales 
quarters this year, including multiple global, enterprise-wide rollouts for 
Fortune 500 clients. ContractPodAi also continues to show strength across key 
performance metrics such as customer retention, while maintaining cost 
efficiency. ContractPodAi has garnered global attention, including recently 
being named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Contract 
Lifecycle Management. The company is also the recipient of the 2021 
International Business Awards Legal Company of the Year, the Edison Award and 
the AI Breakthrough Award. 

About ContractPodAi Technologies (ContractPodAi(R)):
Well-established as the leader in end-to-end contract lifecycle management, 
ContractPodAi harnesses the unrivaled AI power of IBM Watson and Microsoft 
Azure for leading corporations around the world. Now, the platform's robust, 
intuitive, and easy-to-use capabilities have been extended to handle the 
entire, end-to-end legal lifecycle - any use-case, any document type, any 
scenario.

ContractPodAi Cloud amplifies your business's readiness through our 
partnerships with complementary technology providers including IBM, Microsoft, 
DocuSign, and Salesforce. ContractPodAi(R) is headquartered in London and has 
global offices in San Francisco, New York, Glasgow, Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai, 
and Toronto. More information is available at ContractPodAi.com. ContractPodAi 
is the recipient of several awards and has been named a Visionary in the 2021 
Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Contract Lifecycle Management.

Learn more about ContractPodAi at: https://contractpodai.com 

Media Contact:

Seth Leavitt
Kickstand Communications
seth@meetkickstand.com
+1-(617)-791-7951

SOURCE: ContractPodAi
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